Looking for any help sourcing factory team shocks for a T4 team truck build. Can be either the old 1.02" front and 1.39" rear shocks or the most recent 12x27.5mm and 12x36mm shocks. Is there anywhere FT shock kits can be bought? Or is the only way to get FT shocks is to piece them together buying every piece separately? I checked purchasing the T6.3 shocks piece by piece and the cost comes out to $177 before tax and shipping
And what the heck is up with AE discontinuing big bore shock kits, which they still sell with many of their kits?
Front and rear team sets at MSRP 55 rear 50$ front
Used sets on ebay are only about $5-10 cheaper
For my recent project I used v1 threaded bodies and found the 1.39" threaded bodies for less than 1.32
If you just use existing hardware then it's about $ 45.
If you need most of the parts the shock sets are a better deal.
Once I got all the other pieces together I did not save much money off the price of the sets above.
That's about 78$ for both sets, they are only v1 shocks and require the internal shock clips and some parts are ??? Shipping and handling will send this way over the top.
Much thanks for those links JosephS. Part #7476 1.02 shock kit (front) and part #7482 1.39 shock kit (rear) are ordered.
Wasn't looking for "budget" shocks, I really wanted a genuine set of factory team shocks (whether it be V1, V2, big bore) for this truck build. Just wasn't looking forward to spending almost $200 on shocks, which was the case parting the shocks together sourcing from AE and ebay.
R6cowboy wrote: ↑Thu Aug 12, 2021 12:55 pm
Much thanks for those links JosephS. Part #7476 1.02 shock kit (front) and part #7482 1.39 shock kit (rear) are ordered.
Wasn't looking for "budget" shocks, I really wanted a genuine set of factory team shocks (whether it be V1, V2, big bore) for this truck build. Just wasn't looking forward to spending almost $200 on shocks, which was the case parting the shocks together sourcing from AE and ebay.
Good on you! I was looking at those links for months. Those were just out of budget for me. Can't wait to see your build pictures.
JosephS wrote: ↑Thu Aug 12, 2021 2:25 pm
Good on you! I was looking at those links for months. Those were just out of budget for me. Can't wait to see your build pictures.
I pretty much needed everything for the shocks. The only parts I had for shocks were the red o-rings, e-clips and pistons, basically $10 worth of maintenance parts. So those kits you posted were exactly what I needed. Wish I could buy ya a couple rounds.
R6cowboy wrote: ↑Wed Aug 11, 2021 11:34 pm
...12x27.5mm and 12x36mm shocks. ...
And what the heck is up with AE discontinuing big bore shock kits, which they still sell with many of their kits?
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